Match making machine



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ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 3, 1934 .i'i' STATES MATCH MAKING MACHINE Ludwig Henninger, Durlach, Germany, assignor to Badische Maschineniabrik & Eisengiesserei vormals G. Scbold und Sebold & Nefi, Durlach,

Germany pplication May 4, 1933, Serial No. 669,328

In Germany 6 Claims.

The present invention relates to match making machines and more particularly to a new apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches which are ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines and which are to be conveyed to the box-filling machine.

For the aforesaid purpose modern match-making machines have hitherto had the following arrangement. Below the ejecting device there is 10 provided a stationary series of cells extending over the whole length of the carrier bars, these cells first receiving the matches pushed out by the ejection pins. The series of cells isclosed at its lower side by a sliding bottom, which performs two different movements. It moves to and fro intermittently in the longitudinal direction of the carrier bars and thereby shakes the ejected matches in their transverse direction. Further, the slide is intermittently moved to and fro once perpendicularly to the carrier bars, whereby it opens the cells in order to allow the pile of matches to fall from the cells and then again closes them. Below the slide is located a chain provided with compartments which receives the matches falling from the cells and conveys them to the box-filling machine. The said chain receives the matches on a horizontal surface.

This known arrangement has defects which are to be removed by the present invention. For this purpose, the whole series of cells is arranged to be displaceable in a direction perpendicular to the carrier strips, that is, in thelongitudinal direction of the matches. It is moved to and fro once after each stroke of the ejection pins before the slide which closes it from below is opened. This slide only opens the cells after several strokes of the cells, and thereby allows the matches to fall down in known manner on to the compartment chain which according to the present inven tion is provided with an inclined surface sloping down towards the heads of the matches.

Thus, according to the present invention, the matches, after their ejection from the matchmaking machine, are shaken in the cell strip not only in their transverse direction, as hitherto, but also in their longitudinal direction. The ad ditional shaking movement takes place exactly in the direction which the matches are to assume,

and by the co-operation of the transverse and the longitudinal shaking an exactly parallel positioning of the matches is attained. Furthermore, the longitudinal movement prevents individual matches projecting from the pile. By this means the previous defect is removed that when the small pile falls from the cells any projecting July 14, 1932 matches are held back at one end by friction on a wall and fall obliquely into the compartment chain.

The problem of delivering'a pile of matches satisfactorily parallelized or straightened to the box-filling machine is however not yet solved by the exact parallelizing or straightening in the cells. These matches always fall from the cells into the compartment chain with'their heads slightly in advance owing to their somewhat greater weight. Further, their heads require, owing to their greater thickness, a somewhat greater height in the compartment chain. Consequently, with the previous horizontal surface of the compartment chain a pile will always slope downwardly from the heads. The matches which are arranged exactly in the cell strip can consequently again become disordered in the compartment chain, because their inclined position during the fall and their position of rest in the compartment chain deviate from the horizontal in opposite directions. This previous defect is avoided by the inclined surface sloping down towards the heads, because its inclination is in the same direction as that of the falling matches.

In collecting devices of match-making machines which work difierently from that of the present invention it is known to move the matches to and fro in their longitudinal direction after they have been ejected into the boxes. By this means, however, the successful results of the invention are not obtained. If the matches are immediately ejected from the carrier plates into the boxes it is generally no longer possible to expect a straightening by a longitudinal movement. The space for longitudinal movement of the matches in the boxes is too small and the friction on the walls of the box too great. Matches which do not at once fall exactly into the boxes are so much displaced that they can hardly be again straightened. Furthermore, in the older arrangements the longitudinal movement of the matches is not carried out by a movement perpendicular to the carrier bars. A channel containing the boxes swings horizontally about a fixed pivotal point at the entrance point of the boxes at one end of a carrier strip, so that here the rocking movements are nil whilst they steadily increase up to the other end of the carrier strip. The longitudinal movement thus takes place not exactly in the direction in which the matches are to lie but somewhat inclined thereto. Matches lying at an inclination are not straightened with certainty by this kind of longitudinal movement.

Figure 1 is a cross section through the new collecting and straightening arrangement, and

Figure 2 a section on the line AA of Figure 1.

The pins a of the ejection device push the finished matches I) from the carrier bars h. The matches fall into a series of cells, which are formed by longitudinal walls e and f and crossbars d. The series of cells, 11', e, f is closed on its lower side by a bottom 0 formed as a slide.

The slide 0 is intermittently moved to and fro on the one hand, parallel to the carrier bars 71., in order to shake the ejected matches in a transverse direction, and on the other hand after the ejection of a certain number of matches from the carrier bars, it is moved perpendicularly to the carrier bars h for the purpose of opening and again closing. Below the cells (1, e, f and the slide 0 is the chain 1' having compartments into which the matches drop when the slide 0 is opened.

- According to the invention, the series of cells d, e, f is arranged so that it can be moved to and fro perpendicularly to the carrier bars 72. This movement serves to shake and straighten the matches in their longitudinal direction. It is performed. once, for example, by means of a cross-head 9, after each stroke of the ejection pins a with the slide 0 closed. After several strokes of the cells (1, e, ,f the slide 0 opens, allows the small pile of matches to drop out of the cells and again closes. The compartment chain i receives the falling matches by means of an inclined surface sloping down towards the match heads, so that the small piles do not become disarranged. I

I claim as my invention:-

1. In an apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines a series of cells for temporarily receiving the matches ejected,

comprising two longitudinal walls, cross walls and a movable bottom, and adapted to reciprocate parallel to the direction of the matches.

2. In an apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines a series of cells for temporarily receiving the matches ejected and comprising two longitudinal walls, cross walls and a bottom movable at right angles to the direction or" the matches so as to shake and arrange the same transversely, the said cells being adapted toreciprocate parallel to the direction of the matches.

3-. In an apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of matchmaking machines a series of cells for temporarily receiving the matches ejected and comprising two longitudinal walls, cross Walls and a bottom movable parallel to the direction of the matches so as to alternately close and open the said cells in order to cause the matches to drop, the said cells being adapted to reciprocate parallel to the direction of the matches together with the said bottom in the said closed position.

4. In an apparatus for collecting and arrangingthe finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines a series of cells for receiving the matches ejected and comprising two longitudinal walls, cross walls and a bottom alternately movable at right angles and parallel respectively to the direction of the matches, said cells being adapted to reciprocate parallel to the direction of the matches together with the said bottom in a closed position, and below the said cells a compartment chain adapted to receive the piles of matches dropping from the said cells, when in an opened position, and to convey the matches to a box-filling machine.

5. In an apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines a series of cells for temporarily receiving the matches ejected and comprising two longitudinal walls, cross walls and a movable bottom, and a cross head adapted to reciprocate the said cells together with the said bottom in a closed position parallel to the direction of the matches.

6. In an apparatus for collecting and arranging the finished matches ejected from the carrier bars of match-making machines a series of cells comprising two longitudinal walls, cross walls, a bottom alternately movable parallel and transversely to the direction of the matches, a cross head adapted to reciprocate the said cells together with the bottom, and a compartment chain below the said cells and provided with bottoms sloping down towards the match heads and adapted to orderly receive the piles of matches dropping from the said cells when in an open position, and to convey the said matches to a box-filling ma chine.

LUDWIG HENNINGER. 

